Financial graphics editor – Thomson Reuters (London)

Reuters is looking for a Financial Graphics Editor who can lead a team of graphics reporters in analyzing and transforming data on companies, economics and markets into clear, accurate and compelling visual/graphical representations for use on LSEG platforms and other Reuters endpoints.

 

This position can be based in either New York or London

 

About the Role

As a Financial Graphics Editor at Reuters, you will:

  • Lead a team focused on creating daily breaking news graphics across markets, economics and companies beats
  • Determine lines of coverage for the team in conjunction with our financial news reporters as well as the wider graphics team
  • Manage workflows and processes for seamless integration of this content across platforms
  • Generate story and graphics ideas from the financial and business news of the day, creating, assigning and editing these pieces as necessary
  • Identify and report out bespoke or interesting data sets

 

About You

To be our Financial Graphics Editor, you will likely:

  • Have a proven ability to work with complex financial data in a newsroom setting and transform that data into compelling on-the-news graphics
  • Have a proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, mapmaking software such as QGIS, programmatic data manipulation and charting skills in languages such as R or Python and front end web development skills as well as Datawrapper, Flourish, Tableau or similar off-the-shelf chart creating tools
  • Have a journalism degree or equivalent newsroom work experience

What’s in it for you

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

  • Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
  • Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
  • Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
  • Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

 

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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